The Home Guard, known as Dad’s Army.
Which became the title of what is probably Britain’s most loved classic sitcom, about a HG platoon, which ran from 1968 to 1977, with one 1971 feature film.
Repeated by the BBC it seems constantly since then, and usually on every Sat night, it still gets a TV audience of millions on BBC2, usually shown about 7.30/8pm. It even occasionally pops up as a much loved ‘filler’ on BBC1 on early Sat evenings. After the afternoon sport and before the big variety Sat night programme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%27s_Army
I can still recite the words to the theme song!